Is your stylesheet named style.css or Style.css? They aren’t necessarily the same….
and there has to be some information in the top of the stylesheet that wp can read. Take a look at the commented section in the top of the default theme stylesheet.
I ment style.css. I always try to remember to do these things in lowercase. I’ll take another look at the commented section, but I dont understand why the comments matter, on a functionality level.
becky01
Working now? When I visit runjeeta.com, I see a site design, complete with graphics and all, and http://www.runjeeta.com/runjeeta.css loads just fine. Is this still a problem or is it resolved?
If it’s still a problem, can you point out what styles you’ve set up in the CSS that you do not see reflected on your site? I don’t know how you want things to look, so I have no way of knowing whether or not the CSS is working properly. Thanks.
I’m sorry! My blog is set up at http://www.runjeeta.com/word. I can’t believe i forgot to say the URL for the WP installation. sorry
beckyo1
No sweat. You’ll need to modify your header template for that theme.
Your CSS link points to “http://www.runjeeta.com/style.css” which, of course, is a file that doesn’t exist. It should be “http://www.runjeeta.com/word/wp-content/themes/%5Binsert_theme_name%5D/style.css” and typically that’s taken care of automatically with this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
That puts in the path for the CSS.
If you want to keep using that runjeeta.css file, just drop it into your template folder and rename it “style.css.” You could also try typing the direct path of the desired stylesheet into the “header.php” template instead of using PHP to automatically fill in the URL. So type in <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.runjeeta.com/runjeeta.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
Give either one of those a shot and see what happens.
Sweet success! Thanks for helping me. I guess I tried to “fix” it so much that I got confused. Also, i think trying to use relative paths weren’t so great. It totally works now. My next issue is to get my blue content border in the middle to wrap around all the text. 🙂
That blue border does currently wrap around all the text (Mac OS X, Netscape 7.2), but I’ll save that CSS problem of yours for a posting on another forum or something.
If you’re going to use this as a template for a client install, I suggest you go back to using “style.css” inside the template folder for your CSS, reverting back to using <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> in the CSS LINK tag. It will be easier for you to package this template as a proper template to apply to another version of WordPress. Right now, your call to a CSS file outside that template folder could prove to be a pain later on.
Hi! Thanks for the great advice. I think you are right about the css linking. This was a dry run for my site, but the template I’m making for my client is going to be different. But I agree with you. When I make his, I’ll use the style.css sheet in the folder.
Thanks.
becky01
